Business Requirements and Application Architecture

The first step in developing any Datacap application is to define the business requirements.

The process of defining business requirements includes these steps.

• Identifying the types of documents the application processes
• Identifying the page types that are associated with each document type
• Deciding what data you want to capture from each page
• Specifying the business rules that determine whether the captured data is valid or not
• Determining how to manage documents that have problems, including invalid structures, unrecognizable pages, nonconforming data, or low-confidence character recognition
• Deciding how you want to export or release the data at the end of the workflow

The following topics show how to develop the business requirements for a Datacap application. They show the general Datacap application architecture so that you can begin mapping the business requirements to the application model.